On 8/29/07, Don French <dcfrench@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an application that I prototyped on a Parallax Javelin and an
> A7 EB500 Bluetooth card.  It uses Bluetooth SPP protocol
> exclusively.   I now want to commercialize this product, which means
> dramatically reducing the cost and size of the unit.  I am still not
> sure what the best way to go is but I am thinking about porting the
> application to one of the PICs that have built-in USB capability and
> plug a USB Bluetooth dongle into the card because they are so
> inexpensive now.

That is not possible because you need a USB host to connect the
USB Bluetooth dongle which is a slave device. The current PIC18F
USB chips are all slave only.

There are PIC based bluetooth product here:
http://www.flexipanel.com/WirelessProducts.htm

Xiaofan
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